From the feedback we've received and the numbers we've seen, Weekly DIY has turned out to be a really popular series on the Green Options blog. While the series' coordinator Ryan and the writers are always on the hunt for new green DIY projects to feature here, we're pretty sure that you've got a DIY that you'd like to share with the Green Options community. Now you can!
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If you have been exploring solar energy at all, you already know that the payback period for a solar hot water system is much shorter than that for a solar photovoltaic system. The system for solar hot water is much simpler. Rather than converting solar energy into electricity with expensive photovoltaic panels and then rectifying the current through an inverter to create AC power, a
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Photo: Utah Biodiesel SupplyEven with the retail price of biodiesel hovering close to the price of regular diesel ("dino-diesel" to us bio-enthusiasts) in many areas, a growing group of DIYers are making the fuel from scratch in their own garages and back yards.
Homebrewing biodiesel has many advantages: it usually costs well under $1 a gallon to produce, it eliminates trips to the gas station, and it makes a hell [...]
A few years ago, when we started getting our garden together my wife wanted to have a trellis for some roses to climb on. We looked at various options. There are pre-built or kit trellises, but those are expensive. We could build one with wood, but it would need to be treated with preservatives (nasty chemicals) and would need maintenance. We ended up deciding to build one using simple copper pipe.
I'm not sure how it happens but I never seem to eat all of my bananas before they turn brown. My roommate knows this about me and she'll usually rescue them just in time, but yesterday I smelled them when I walked into the kitchen. Overly ripe bananas. They would have to go.
Instead of tossing them out I looked up a few recipes for banana bread and got
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It Can Be Greener!For me, a big part of living green is eating a plant-based diet. My wife decided to go vegan almost 4 years ago, and after I did my fair share of whining and nay-saying, I finally joined her a few months later. We've never looked back.
Well, okay, almost never. Giving up the meat was far easier than I ever expected. Eggs? Never liked those much [...]
When we moved into our first home, our bedroom closet had some hideous doors that we knew were going bye-bye. We put them in our unused garage with the hopes that we'd be able to use them someday. One year later, when I was prepping to start a garden, I needed a way to prevent our black lab, Asher, from getting into the veggie plants. I decided
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This weekend we got the first tantalizing taste of spring as the weather was clear and bright and temperatures rose well above freezing for the first time in months. Snow melted (though not entirely yet), and started the thoughts of summer gardens in mind. But nighttime temperatures are still falling below freezing, and it's far too early to put plants in the ground, unless you provide a little assistance.
If your
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When most people hear the word "solar," they automatically think "expensive." Gary Reysa, the publisher of BuildItSolar.com, has demonstrated again and again that this doesn't have to be the case; with the right (easily-available) materials and a little time and elbow grease, almost anyone can add useful, valuable solar features to their home or other building.
Gary's $350 Solar Heater plan has gotten quite a bit of play both on- and off-line
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Each day, millions of Americans sit down to a meal, and coat it with a variety of condiments that have their origins in the Southwest of North America. Salsa and hot sauce are two of the favorites, and are a mainstay at dinner tables and restaurants across the country and the world. However the traditional salsa or hot sauce is a mass-produced mess, loaded with preservatives, “natural” and artificial flavors, and other chemicals
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